Sentences with phrase «birth cohort of children»

«This research really began in 2002 when our colleagues from the National Institutes of Health, led by Patrick Duffy and Michal Fried, enrolled a birth cohort of children in Tanzania,» said Kurtis, director of the Center for International Health Research at Rhode Island Hospital, and the study's principal investigator.

Not exact matches

British Cohort Study interviewer instructions for sweep 2 in 1975 (cohort child at five years) state that «if the [birth] father is divorced, separated or has «deserted» the mother, he is not considered as a «father figure» even if visiting the child daily» (see page 68 of our full reCohort Study interviewer instructions for sweep 2 in 1975 (cohort child at five years) state that «if the [birth] father is divorced, separated or has «deserted» the mother, he is not considered as a «father figure» even if visiting the child daily» (see page 68 of our full recohort child at five years) state that «if the [birth] father is divorced, separated or has «deserted» the mother, he is not considered as a «father figure» even if visiting the child daily» (see page 68 of our full report)!

Respiratory and gastrointestinal tract infections are the leading cause of morbidity in children.1, 2 Prospective cohort studies in industrialized countries revealed a prevalence of 3.4 % to 32.1 % for respiratory tract infectious diseases and 1.2 % to 26.3 % for gastrointestinal infectious diseases in infancy.3, — , 8 The risks of these infectious diseases are affected by several factors including birth weight, gestational age, socioeconomic status, ethnicity, number of siblings, day care attendance, and parental smoking.3, 5,6,8, — , 20

Area and individual maternal characteristics included country of residence, ward type, socioeconomic status, ethnicity (defined by Office for National Statistics guidelines and classified for this analysis as British / Irish white3 or of other ethnic origin), maternal age in years at cohort child's birth, level of education (attainment of qualification at GCSE grade G or above), parity (whether cohort child is first live birth), and lone parent status.

To address the issues above, this paper reports on the results of an 18 - year longitudinal study of the relationships between infant feeding practices and later cognitive ability and academic achievement in a birth cohort of > 1000 New Zealand children studied from birth to age 18 years.

In particular, breastfeeding may be of concern because it has been shown to be associated with both child's use of antibiotics36, 37 and cow's milk allergy, although inconsistently so.38 In a large Finnish birth cohort, the median durations of exclusive and total breastfeeding were 1.4 months and 7.0 months, respectively, and the proportion of breastfed infants decreased from 95 % at the age of 1 month to 58 % at the age of 6 months.39 Another limitation is our reliance on pharmacy records, which provides only a rough estimation of drug use.

He has conducted extensive research in maternal and child health and nutrition, long - term birth cohort studies, inequalities in health, and on the evaluation of the impact of major global health programs.

Association between breast feeding and asthma in 6 year old children: findings of a prospective birth cohort study

The Lifestyle During Pregnancy Study examined a subset of five - year - old children and their mothers from the Danish National Birth Cohort.

Using a birth cohort, this study examines the prospective associations between the environmental quality of the family meal experience at age 6 and child well - being at age 10.»

Researchers from Norway and Canada used data from The Norwegian Mother and Child Cohort Study (MoBa) and The Medical Birth Registry of Norway to measure the effect of SSRIs and maternal depression on birth weight and gestational length, using their sibling design method to differentiate the study from previous studies looking into prenatal SSRI effBirth Registry of Norway to measure the effect of SSRIs and maternal depression on birth weight and gestational length, using their sibling design method to differentiate the study from previous studies looking into prenatal SSRI effbirth weight and gestational length, using their sibling design method to differentiate the study from previous studies looking into prenatal SSRI effects.

This study was conducted as part of the Swedish birth cohort BAMSE, and is based on analyses of omega - 3 and -6 fatty acids in blood samples from 940 children.

They analysed bullying and depression data on 3,898 participants in the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC), a UK community based birth cohort.

Dr Lavinia Paternoster, Senior Lecturer in Genetic Epidemiology from Bristol Medical School: Population Health Sciences, who initiated the study, said: «This study brought together two European birth cohorts, PIAMA, from the Netherlands and ALSPAC (or «Children of the 90s») from Bristol.

Although various studies propose a connection between childhood ADHD and obesity, «this is the first population - based longitudinal study to examine the association between ADHD and development of obesity using ADHD cases and controls of both sexes derived from the same birth cohort,» says lead author Seema Kumar, M.D., pediatrician and researcher at Mayo Clinic Children's Research Center.

In this new study, fasting blood samples were collected from 397 10 - year - old children within a follow - up of two prospective German birth cohort studies.

Investigators looked at data from a large, nationally representative sample of preschool - aged children — the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study - Birth Cohort, conducted by the National Center for Education Statistics.

Women were considered eligible for the parent cohort if they gave birth to at least one child between 1969 and 1983 and were living in one of eight Cape Cod towns with some contaminated pipes at the time of the child's birth.

One study is based on children taking part in the Finnish Type 1 Diabetes Prediction and Prevention (DIPP) study, which is a birth cohort study observing children at genetic risk for type 1 diabetes from birth up to clinical diabetes or 15 years of age.

The researcher then measured antibodies to PfSEA - 1 in the entire Tanzanian birth cohort of 785 children.

Continue with the sixth year of the Birth Cohort Study, funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to the University of New Mexico Community Environmental Health Program, SRIC, the Navajo Nation Department of Health, and the Indian Health Service to work with young Navajo women and newborn children to identify uranium and other environmental sources of health risks in northwestern New Mexico and northeastern Arizona.

Methods: We conducted a nested case - control study within the Norwegian Mother and Child Birth Cohort of 1545 case - pairs and 995 control - pairs from 2540 validated dyads (2011 complete pairs, 529 missing mother or child genotChild Birth Cohort of 1545 case - pairs and 995 control - pairs from 2540 validated dyads (2011 complete pairs, 529 missing mother or child genotchild genotype).

Association of consumption of products containing milk fat with reduced asthma risk in pre-school children: the PIAMA birth cohort study.

A cohort study of 923 healthy adults from Scotland (Lothian Birth Control 1936 Study), assessed the IQ of children at 11 years old and latterly at the age of70.

Bailey finds that the increased availability and lower costs of family planning in the 1960s and 1970s produced a 2 - to 3 - percent increase in family income for all of the children in an affected cohort, and perhaps a 20 - to 30 - percent gain for those children who benefited most directly from their parents» greater access to birth control.

Effect on Achievement Gaps Data from a nationally representative sample of children, the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study — Birth Cohort 2001, reveal that gaps in what children know and are able to do appear as early as 9 months of age.

The comparison cohort was frequency - matched to the exposed cohort based on maternal age within Indigenous status and child's year of birth.

Within the Indigenous cohort, there was little difference between the socioeconomic status, health service region and maternal age at child's birth of exposed and comparison cohort mothers.

The authors used data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study, a longitudinal birth cohort study including nearly 5,000 children born between 1998 and 2000 in hospitals in 20 U.S. cities, to consider these dimensions of dynamic family structure together, asking whether they independently predict children's behavior problems at age 9.

Analyses were conducted using public - use data available from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study, a prospective birth cohort study that follows up a nationally representative sample of children from 20 large cities in the United States.

The analysis presented in this article was conducted with public - use data from the Fragile Families and Child Well - being Study, a longitudinal birth cohort study of 4898 children born in the United States between 1998 and 2000.

METHODS: Respondents (N = 2461) participated in the Fragile Families and Child Well - being Study (1998 — 2005), a population - based, birth cohort study of children born in 20 large US cities.

Maternal smoking habits and cognitive development of children at age 4 years in a population - based birth cohort

The second study tested this link in a birth cohort of 1265 children and concluded that there was a «direct and specific» link from adolescent depression to later depression.51 The study design provides a rather stringent test for the outcomes of adolescent depression by accounting for the effects of anxiety disorders, early cigarette smoking, CDs, alcohol abuse, and a range of other putative risk factors.

This study was conducted as a part of an ongoing cohort study in Hamamatsu city in the mainland of Japan, known as the «Hamamatsu Birth Cohort for Mothers and Children (HBC Study)» (Takagai et al., in press; Tsuchiya et al., cohort study in Hamamatsu city in the mainland of Japan, known as the «Hamamatsu Birth Cohort for Mothers and Children (HBC Study)» (Takagai et al., in press; Tsuchiya et al., Cohort for Mothers and Children (HBC Study)» (Takagai et al., in press; Tsuchiya et al., 2010).

Having lived in more than four homes since birth was significantly associated with lower odds of good mental health in the entire cohort (OR = 0.62, 95 % CI 0.39 to 1.00) and for children aged 4 — 7 years (OR = 0.39, 95 % CI 0.18 to 0.85).

The Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study The Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study is a new data set that follows a cohort of approximately 5,000 children born between 1998 and 2000 in medium to large U.S. cities.37 Approximately 3,700 of the children were born to unmarried mothers and 1,200 to married mothers.38 The study initiated interviews with parents at a time when both were in the hospital for the birth of their child and therefore available for interviews.39 As a consequence, FFCWS is able to comprehensively detail the characteristics of both parents and the nature of their relationship at the time of the child's bChild Wellbeing Study The Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study is a new data set that follows a cohort of approximately 5,000 children born between 1998 and 2000 in medium to large U.S. cities.37 Approximately 3,700 of the children were born to unmarried mothers and 1,200 to married mothers.38 The study initiated interviews with parents at a time when both were in the hospital for the birth of their child and therefore available for interviews.39 As a consequence, FFCWS is able to comprehensively detail the characteristics of both parents and the nature of their relationship at the time of the child's bChild Wellbeing Study is a new data set that follows a cohort of approximately 5,000 children born between 1998 and 2000 in medium to large U.S. cities.37 Approximately 3,700 of the children were born to unmarried mothers and 1,200 to married mothers.38 The study initiated interviews with parents at a time when both were in the hospital for the birth of their child and therefore available for interviews.39 As a consequence, FFCWS is able to comprehensively detail the characteristics of both parents and the nature of their relationship at the time of the child's bchild and therefore available for interviews.39 As a consequence, FFCWS is able to comprehensively detail the characteristics of both parents and the nature of their relationship at the time of the child's bchild's birth.

Parental mental illness Relatively little has been written about the effect of serious and persistent parental mental illness on child abuse, although many studies show that substantial proportions of mentally ill mothers are living away from their children.14 Much of the discussion about the effect of maternal mental illness on child abuse focuses on the poverty and homeless - ness of mothers who are mentally ill, as well as on the behavior problems of their children — all issues that are correlated with involvement with child welfare services.15 Jennifer Culhane and her colleagues followed a five - year birth cohort among women who had ever been homeless and found an elevated rate of involvement with child welfare services and a nearly seven - times - higher rate of having children placed into foster care.16 More direct evidence on the relationship between maternal mental illness and child abuse in the general population, however, is strikingly scarce, especially given the 23 percent rate of self - reported major depression in the previous twelve months among mothers involved with child welfare services, as shown in NSCAW.17

The FFCWS birth cohort consists of nearly 5000 children born between 1998 and 2000 in 20 large US cities.11, 12 By design, most children in the study were born to unmarried parents.

Data were gathered from a 25 - year longitudinal study of a birth cohort of New Zealand children (n = 982).

The Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study, which followed a cohort of nearly 5,000 children born in large U.S. cities between 1998 and 2000 (roughly three - quarters of whom were born to unmarried parents), sheds light on the relationships of low - income, unmarried parents.11 The vast majority of unmarried fathers in the study indicated they were romantically involved with their child's mother at the time of the child's bChild Wellbeing Study, which followed a cohort of nearly 5,000 children born in large U.S. cities between 1998 and 2000 (roughly three - quarters of whom were born to unmarried parents), sheds light on the relationships of low - income, unmarried parents.11 The vast majority of unmarried fathers in the study indicated they were romantically involved with their child's mother at the time of the child's bchild's mother at the time of the child's bchild's birth.

We have recently reported on the associations between child and adolescent television viewing and adult health in a birth cohort of approximately 1000 individuals.15 We now report on the associations between television viewing and educational attainment in the same cohort.

METHODS: Analysis of 6600 children with cognitive assessments at kindergarten entry from the US Early Childhood Longitudinal Birth Cohort Study.

Although other fields have used synthetic cohort life tables to document the cumulative risk of experiencing an event, no such attempts have been made using official child maltreatment data.23 Therefore, the purpose of this study was to use synthetic cohort life tables to determine the percentage of US children confirmed as maltreated according to CPS from birth to 18 years of age.

Primary analysis on the «Birth to Twenty» cohort was performed for the association between maternal postnatal depression and child behaviour problems (n = 1035) and growth (n = 891) at age 2 and subgroup analyses (n = 635) were carried out to assess the role of poor child growth in this association.

This study will employ The Early Childhood Longitudinal Study - Birth Cohort (ECLS - B) database to conduct rigorous scientific analyses regarding influence of early care and education arrangements on young children's outcomes and the aspects of home environments that moderate the impact of these early education settings.

Parenting: The First Three Years ® optimizes an appreciation of child development knowledge and provides the opportunity to unify cohorts of parents of children ages birth to three to promote mutual support and prevent parent isolation --- a key protective factor in abuse prevention.

The most recent follow - up study reported associations between duration of breastfeeding and childhood cognitive ability and academic achievement extending from 8 to 18 years in a New Zealand cohort of 1000 children.19 This study found that these effects were significant after controlling for measures of social and family history, including maternal age, education, SES, marital status, smoking during pregnancy, family living conditions, and family income, and measures of perinatal factors, including gender, birth weight, child's estimated gestational age, and birth order in the family.

To date, GUS has collected information about three «cohorts» of children: a child cohort and two birth cohorts - altogether, information has been collected on about 14,000 children.

This study uses data from the first GUS birth cohort, a nationally representative sample of families with children born between June 2004 and May 2005.